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[Specialist290]

Newbish Question Alert:

OK, according to the wiki it's possible to break an opponent's limbs while wrestling, but I've tried all sorts of different ways of going about it, but I can't seem to figure out how to get a lock and actually pull it off.  Anyone got any tips?

[Calvin]

Strangle a zombie groundhog.

Easy to find on evil locations with hilly landscape.


To break a limb, you grab the limb with your hand, and you should be able to lock, and then get the option to break/pinch/gouge/strangle.

[Specialist290]

Hmm... Just had a wolf's leg in my grasp, and no option to lock appeared.  Is it only with certain creatures?

[irdsm]

I believe it only works on humanoids.

[Specialist290]

All right.  That might explain it then.

[Calvin]

Also, note that only some body parts can be affected.

You can only break the hands, feet, neck(I think), and their relative organs.

[Haedrian]

Make sure you're grabbing with a hand, grabbing with your arm/shoulder/whatever doesn't work. Drop your shield and grab 'im

[irdsm]

Make sure you're grabbing with a hand, grabbing with your arm/shoulder/whatever doesn't work. Drop your shield and grab 'im

I'm pretty sure that isn't true for breaking things or strangling. You can only gouge/pinch with hands, but you can break upper arms and what not with any body part...

at least from what I remember

[assimilateur]

at least from what I remember

I can attest to that, as I've played adventure mode only a couple weeks ago. Bearing in mind that breaking joints only works on humanoids, you can do that (and strangling too) anyway you like. For example, you can strangle someone with your sword, even though that would probably more easily cut their throat than crush their windpipe, but who am I to judge.

I can also confirm that if you want to do the fancy stuff you have to drop your weapon and/or shield and grab them with a free hand. By fancy stuff I mean gouging out eyes, disrobing or disarming the enemy. How to do so should become evident after grabbing what's appropriate (in this case, the head, their clothes/armor and their weapons, respectively).

[Leafsnail]

On a humanoid you can:

Break their wrist by grabbing their hand.
Break their elbow by grabbing their lower arm.
Break their shoulder by grabbing their upper arm.
Break their hip by grabbing their upper leg.
Break their knee by grabbing their lower leg.
Break their ankle by grabbing their foot.
Strangle them by grabbing their throat.
Pinch a variety of body parts (requires empty hand).
Disarm a weapon (requires empty hand).
Strip an item of clothing/ armour (requires empty hand).
Remove a stuck in item (requires empty hand).  Note: you can also, instead of trying to take a stuck in item, twist it around in the wound.
Gouge their eyes out (requires empty hand).
Throw people down and take down people by various body parts.  I think this requires an empty hand, and for them to be standing up.  Not sure what the difference is between these two actions.

Requires empty hand means you must grab them with a hand, and that hand mustn't have anything in it.

[assimilateur]

Nice, thorough list.

About taking down vs throwing, one would assume that the latter would cause damage, but I'm not sure if I ever witnessed this. Hence it might only be there for flavor.

Prone enemies do less damage, right? If that's so, that would at least make both moves mentioned above somewhat useful.

[Leafsnail]

Nice, thorough list.

About taking down vs throwing, one would assume that the latter would cause damage, but I'm not sure if I ever witnessed this. Hence it might only be there for flavor.

Prone enemies do less damage, right? If that's so, that would at least make both moves mentioned above somewhat useful.

Yes, I tend to keep my enemies on the floor while gouging their eyes out, but I can't see much difference between the two moves, and neither cause damage.  Prone enemies are also slower and easier to hit.

I don't think there's any way to damage actual limbs or organs (as opposed to joints) with wrestling, but I might be wrong.

[Duuvian]

When I was playing around in adventurer mode, I started a professional wrestler. Using a left hand grab on the enemies head, it seemed to me that throwing had the possibility to stun as well as knocking down, while take down only allowed knocking down. I only used hand holds, but perhaps throw is hand grabs only while maybe you can takedown with an armpit? Pure conjecture on my part

[Leafsnail]

When I was playing around in adventurer mode, I started a professional wrestler. Using a left hand grab on the enemies head, it seemed to me that throwing had the possibility to stun as well as knocking down, while take down only allowed knocking down. I only used hand holds, but perhaps throw is hand grabs only while maybe you can takedown with an armpit? Pure conjecture on my part

That would make sense, yes.  Thanks.

[zchris13]

You can do both with any body part.